Open AccessEstimation of total error in DWPF reported radionuclide inventories. Revision 1
Author(s) -
T. Bradley Edwards
Publication year - 1995
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/119878
Subject(s) - radionuclide , environmental science , sampling (signal processing) , macro , computer science , nuclear physics , physics , computer vision , programming language , filter (signal processing)
The Defense Waste Processing Facility (DWPF) at the Savannah River Site is required to determine and report the radionuclide inventory of its glass product. For each macro-batch, the DWPF will report both the total amount (in curies) of each reportable radionuclide and the average concentration (in curies/gram of glass) of each reportable radionuclide. The DWPF is to provide the estimated error of these reported values of its radionuclide inventory as well. The objective of this document is to provide a framework for determining the estimated error in DWPF`s reporting of these radionuclide inventories. This report investigates the impact of random errors due to measurement and sampling on the total amount of each reportable radionuclide in a given macro-batch. In addition, the impact of these measurement and sampling errors and process variation are evaluated to determine the uncertainty in the reported average concentrations of radionuclides in DWPF`s filled canister inventory resulting from each macro-batch